Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not remissive or remitting.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not remitting; unforgiving.
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- adjective Not
remitting ;unforgiving .
Etymologies
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ir- + remissive
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This power, first put in action by the will and understanding, and retained under their irremissive, though gentle and unnoticed, control, laxis effertur habenis, reveals
Biographia Literaria Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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